Art, literature & history
Mending the Nets
1882
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- transparent and opqaue watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 69.5 × 48.9 cm (27 3/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1984.58.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. Mending the Nets. Winslow Homer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bequest of Julia B. Engel. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Mending the Nets — Winslow Homer. 1882.
Medium: transparent and opqaue watercolor over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 69.5 × 48.9 cm (27 3/8 × 19 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1984.58.3. Bequest of Julia B. Engel.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.